Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), February 2017

by: antoviaque
text: REMOTE OK. Open Source developer on Open edX (OpenCraft - Remote&#x2F;worldwide company based in Berlin)<p>Development specialized on the free software project Open edX, used by many universities and companies to run online courses. See edx.org, stanford.edu or fun-mooc.fr for examples of Open edX instances. We are a team of ten developers, working remotely from Europe, North America, Asia, Russia &amp; Australia. The company is not affiliated with edX, but contributing and working with them on various projects. This is a full time position, were you would be able to work remotely from where you want, as long as you have a good internet connexion. : )<p>It&#x27;s a large Python&#x2F;Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list&#x2F;references include Harvard, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups &amp; universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are varied, from developing developing core platform features, custom exercises and tools for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing and deploying instances, working on both client&#x2F;server sides, etc.<p>Most of your work is published as free software (Open edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing some of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists.<p>Stack: Python&#x2F;Django, Ansible, AWS&#x2F;OpenStack, Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu, JS, HTML&#x2F;CSS, MySQL, MongoDB<p>Interview process: a 15 minutes (simple) coding exercise &amp; a 30 minutes Hangout.<p>To apply, fill this form: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opencraft.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;open-source-developer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opencraft.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;open-source-developer&#x2F;</a>

by: ammmir
text: Anywhere, REMOTE<p>Seeking a Go (golang) developer who has experience in cross-platform desktop app development to build a super simple tray icon app for Mac and Windows. Experience in Cocoa, Objective-C, Win32 API, and cgo of course are a plus, but not required, as long as you&#x27;re motivated to figure things out :)<p>Email amir at pilvy dot com with your coolest Go project and anything relevant. It&#x27;s a small project, but could lead to more work in the future.

by: lsowen
text: REMOTE<p>London based Additive Manufacturing startup is looking for a frontend dev&#x2F;designer.<p>Initial work is targetted around improving the mobile responsiveness of some sites.  Stack includes sass, webpack, bootstrap, and jQuery.<p>Experience with python, jinja2, and docker helpful, but not required.<p>Please email be at hn (AT) s1devops.com with any recent links to code, questions, and your rate.

by: jknightco
text: Remote<p>I run a mobile dev studio and just closed a contract requiring two Android developers, but my usual contractor is currently occupied and I need someone to pick up the slack.<p>This is a full time (40hrs&#x2F;wk) contracting gig. Must be within US or EU timezones.<p>Email me at james@gradient.nyc with your rate and experience if you&#x27;re interested.